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Nearly 70 years after 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was convicted and executed ... 8 things you didn't know about baby gorillas WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Much like human babies, baby gorillas ...
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On June 16, 1944, the state of South Carolina wrongly executed the 14-year-old by electric chair after being accused of killing two white girls. On June 16, 1944 at 7:30 p.m., the state of South ...
SLIDESHOW - George Stinney's life ended at ... theGrio has put together a series of haunting photos – including the actual chair Stinney was electrocuted in and the state documents of the ...
George Stinney Jr., of Alcolu, is one of 20 Black teenagers South Carolina has executed. He was electrocuted in 1944 at age 14. A judge overturned his conviction 70 years later. Provided photo ...
SUMTER, S.C. – Lawyers finally got the chance to argue on behalf of George Stinney, 70 years after the 14-year-old black boy was sent to the electric chair for killing two white girls in South ...
Nearly all evidence in the case has disappeared. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen says she has to decide if George Stinney received a fair trial 70 years ago. George Stinney%2C 14%2C was the youngest ...
An African-American boy, George Stinney Jr., who was executed at age 14 in the killing of two young white girls has been exonerated in South Carolina, 70 years after he became the youngest person ...
The judgment against George Stinney, the youngest person to be executed by an American state since the 1800s, effectively exonerates the boy, said family attorney Matt Burgess. A black teen in the ...
Aime Ruffner recalled helping her 14-year-old brother, George Stinney Jr., graze the family cow one day in March 1944 in the tiny South Carolina town of Alcolu, deep in the Jim Crow South.